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Comment #49206561
What is it about the code that suggests it is vibe-coded? Is it the commit messages? Is it the large comment blocks? I'm asking because I almost never read code written by SWEs.
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Comment #49116423
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Comment #49062883
As someone with english as my second language this style is just too much to bother. Sure, I get that it is elegant and precise. But for me it results in stilted reading. Hence I d…
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Comment #48885963
My point is that something is not useless if it has the potential for future use. I would, for example, not call the example in the article (in any stage of its development) useles…
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Comment #48885158
I do not know how it is in other countries, but in Sweden hospice is for a calm end. You are dying regardless
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Comment #48884941
I do not get the "against usefulness" portion. The article still discusses the projects she deems "useless" in relation to their future potential usefulness.
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Comment #48506370
At the risk of sounding a bit pretentious: I think the relationship a lot of people have with books can best be described as commodity fetisishm. People see some value in the physi…
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Comment #48146754
Well, yeah, 99% of arXiv papers were not written for me or you. They were written for someone who works in a niche within a niche. That's (in my view) the beauty of research.
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Comment #47918315
Now I am interested in playing a board game that is not turn-based
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Comment #47775121
> You signed up with a hosting company; they provided you with a bunch of different ways to upload files; your website was hosted. But that is not self-hosting. You're still using …
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Comment #47426115
Do you suggest small businesses send tattoos and freshly baked bread in the mail? I do not how they benefit from it
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Comment #47416622
Seems easy to address with a simple rule. Push one PR; review one PR
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Comment #47390565
More: If you want to spend time with your grandkid please do not just sit besides him, phone in hand. If you do not want to then that's fine
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Comment #47338463
No, the author used Howl for their normal work and Nano occasionally. I would guess when working in the terminal
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Comment #47177433
Sweden would have had its own nuclear bombs if not for the political opposition. That's at least one more that would have been on the list.
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Comment #47162821
It is really interesting how great and also how terrible LLMs can be at the same time. For example, I had a really annoying bug yesterday, I missed one character, "_". Asking ChatG…
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Comment #47150576
The argument is based on the assumption that knowing what DNS, SSH, etc., is an innate good for the average person. But why should it be? The average user does not have the time or…
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Comment #47150391
I do not know what you mean. The US and US-based companies have now become a liability. Global politics change on a day-by-day basis, EU has frozen trade agreement discussions beca…
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Comment #47084545
I do not buy the whole ergonomic portion for most split keyboards. It feels like a justification after the fact. That said I used to use a lily58 and for me it was great. I have a …
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Comment #46575813
I recentry read a book that presentes its content as ramble poetry, a post-ironic reference heavy text. I feel that is a suitable description for this readme page.
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Comment #45926742
Unfortunatly the site is sloppy when explaining the subject. For example > Let's say we have the following binary string. s=00000000000000000000 It is obviously not random since th…
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Comment #45770930
Based on what?
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Comment #44930674
If its a random ID then I'd argue that all of them are equally close to each other. With that said, I do not know how GUIDs are generated
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Comment #44614075
> You still need to learn the names of models, understand their use cases, concepts like MoE, then you have different architectures like diffusion vs transformers, agents etc Why? …
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Comment #44614027
If you care about reducing the amount of back and forth then just use QUIC.